PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 18:24
Anita Monga talks dark humanity, the first female animator, and when Sessue Hayakawa was arguably the sexiest actor in Hollywood.
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 20:37
Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...
- Added: May 07, 2023
- Length: 59:01
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Dec 09, 2022
- Length: 01:00:29
- Purchases: 1
Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:04
In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 31:54
In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.
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Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 59:00
When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:01
- Purchases: 1
We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...
Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
Night Lights' decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson and more.
- Added: Feb 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Dr. Shelley Stamp talks digging, allegory, and the relative nature of shocking subject matter.
- Added: Oct 13, 2018
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 59:03
Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Johnny was the son of a local cobbler who fell into an old canal that cut through the center of Dayton where Patterson Boulevard now runs. His belo...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 04:55
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner talk dreams, unexpected cultural differences, and making friends with depression.
- Added: Nov 27, 2014
- Length: 29:16
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 28:02
